Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-06-16
MICHIGAN MATTERS.
Michigan Crop Report.

grees above the normal average tempera-
ture, The menn rainfall In May was two
and fOur-tenths inches, or three-quarters
OF an inch below the normal average.
All crops are doing well. The condition
of wheat I'm the southern four tiers OF
counties is 10 per cent, comparison being
with the vitality and growth of average
years. This is per cent below the con
dition on May 1, and 8 per cent below con
ditiOn June /, 1886. These figures indi.
cate yield per acre of nearly 1877 bush
els, while the average per acre as esti-
mated by correspondents Is 1893 bushels.
The condition in counties of the south
ern four tiers ranges from SO in Washte-
nav to % in Lapeer. The condition is
the highest i'm st. Clair, 03; Lapeer 81;
Genesee, 81, and Shiawassee, 02. In the
central counties the average condition is
30, and i'm the northern counties 80. With
favorable weather until harvest the yield
of wheat will doubtless be better than
these figures indicate, yet whatever Is the
final output it will certainly fall far be-
low what it would have been had an av-
erage amount of rain fallen during April
and May. Damage by Hessian fly, insects
and worm is reported from Barry, Berrien,
Cass, Jackson and WaShtenaw counties.
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i'm the central seven per cent, and in the
northern six per cent of the 1856 wheat
crop is still in the farmers hands. The
wheat marketed in May was 722, 191
bushels.
The area planted to corn equals the area
planted in 1886, and not to exceed 8 or 4
per cent of the area planted failed to grow.
The area sown to oats equals and the area
sOwn to barley Is less than that of 1886.
In condition, compared with average years,
oats and barley are each 81. Glover
meadows and pastures are so, and clover
sOwn this year IS, as compared with % and
SO one year ago. Eighteen per cent of the
clover sOwn failed to grow. In southern
counties this year wages of farm hands
average with board, $1,000; in the central
counties, SIG. SO. and i'm northern counties,
S19.40. Without board in the southern
counties, S23. SO; in the central 1881; and
in the northern, S29.51.
Apples promise in southern counties 81
per cent. in central 81 per cent, and in the
northern "a per cent of an average crop.
In the southern counties EOS correspond
ents reported the outlook for peaches at
IS per cent. OF healthy peach trees there
are comparatively few in the state and the
total product will be small.
Report of Legislative Committee.
The national legislative committee Of
the knights of labor have submitted to the
general executive board a report of their
labor during the short session of the
forty-ninth congress. The letter carriers
eight hour bill, says the report, was an
tagonized by Mr.. Springer in favor of a
bill known as the trade dollar bill-a bill
I'm the interest of Cnnan1afOrg Tho 1atfar
carriers bill would put into the pockets of
letter-carriers, in the shape of reduced
hours of labor, so the postofiice department
claimed, $3.50, 900. The passage of the
trade dollar bill actually put into the
pockets of spectators 81, 900, 600, every
dollar Of which was tilched from the pock-
cts of the poor by the law that demOnetized
il.
The report gives an account of the many
attempts made by Representative Willis to
get the Blair educational bill before the
house and continues:
Mr.. Willis introduced a resolution to re-
lieve the committee on education from
further consideration of the bill by priv
ileged question to amend the rules of the
house, but he was ruled out of order by
the speaker pro tempore, Mr.. Springer,
and in an undetermined manner, in the
opinion of the committee Mr.. Willis
withdrew his motion with the remark that
he would renew it when the regular speak
er was in the chair, which he did on the
14th. only to be antagoniZed by Mr..
Springer with points of order. 1t is the
opinion of the friends of the measure that
the committee on education was packed
against the bill by the speaker.
The Interstate commerce law next re-
ceives the attention of the committee, and
they point out that in their opinion the
Reagan bill was measure calculated to
serve the country, and that the present
measure is practically failure on account
of the doubtful Interpretation of the law.
The report criticises Mr.. Randall, Mr..
Morrison and Mr.. Carlisle for their failure
as the steering" committee to secure the
consideration of measures In which the
knights of labor are interested.
Mysterious Disappearance.
Last fall Mrs. Albert Brooks of Juniata,